Hi all, I would like to bring to your attention that the FIG (International Association of Geomatics Engineers), together with the FAO (UN) and the Swiss federal administration released the brochure titled "FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risk".
It is available at http://www.fig.net/pub/fao/floss_cadastre.pdf They base their software comparison chart on QGIS 1.3, which is a bit outdated. And sometimes they make wrong statements, like "Quantum GIS is a light-weight frontend for GRASS data which works also well with PostGIS data." It would be ok, when it was stated like "Quantum GIS is also a lightweight frontend for GRASS data ...." One weakness of QGIS is however topology validation - it is probably one area where OS competition (such as gvSIG) is ahead. But it is good to see that they recommend the use of FOSSGIS in development countries and list samples and use cases, also from Middle-Europe. Hopefully this will also result in some business opportunities for companies involved with FOSS-GIS, so all can profit from each other. Andreas -- Andreas Neumann http://www.carto.net/neumann/ http://www.svgopen.org/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
